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2009 AdFocus winners

26 Nov 2009 12:045 commentsBizLike
The Financial Mail AdFocus Awards, with the theme of “Surviving the recession”, were held last night, Wednesday, 25 November 2009, at the forum | the campus in Bryanston, Johannesburg.

2009 winners
Advertising Agency of the YearOgilvy Johannesburg
Media Agency of the YearInitiative Media
Digital Agency of the YearGloo Digital Design
Lifetime AchievementJohn Hunt and Reg Lascaris
New broom: up-and-coming starKhaya Dlanga
African Agency Network of the YearOgilvy Africa
Effective Advertising CampaignOgilvy Johannesburg: Shaking up KFC
Agency Leader of the YearRavi Naidoo


No award was made in the branding and design category.

Comments Marc Taback, Initiative Media CEO, “A fantastic win for us. I am so proud of all my staff - we deserve it ! We will be celebrating today.”

Khaya Dlanga, creative strategic director at MetropolitanRepublic, was once an Eastern Cape herdboy.

Guest speaker was BJ Cunninghame, who describes himself as a serial entrepreneur but who is best known for Death Cigarettes, which shook up the UK tobacco market in the 1990s with its brand promise: "Our product will kill you." Cunningham, who made his first fortune trading in second-hand classic cars, is now in business with his wife running one of the world's most exclusive handmade shoe designers/producers.

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tired of this...
yawn!-
same old Posted on 26 Nov 2009 14:31
Jeeprs
Yawn! And then some ...!-
You poor, miserable sod.
Move on, buddy, and find something that excites you! Posted on 26 Nov 2009 15:46
Adfocus-
Re-defined Limp ! Posted on 27 Nov 2009 06:53
The award for best creative goes to AdFocus.......-
Creative in the sense that the results this year like years before is still complete rubbish. Where does adfocus get their scoring from and is it auditable? Every year the figures get published and every year one wonders how did the scoring work. Surely the judging and scoring method should be a transparent process to give the AdFocus awards credibility. It become a joke, an event that most would rather stay at home and wash their hair than attend. The ranking is complete rubbish. Please start comparing apples with apples so that there is some form of purpose to the event. Posted on 30 Nov 2009 08:11
Thierry
Cred-
Suggest or demand 3rd party auditors maybe... Posted on 30 Nov 2009 16:08
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